Monday, November 12, 2012

The Inbox Giveth: Cultura Tres & Galvano

I've been getting some furious and rather viscous metal albums from Devouter Records, who clued me into Cultura Tres and Galvano. I have permission to share their albums online, though I'll insist once you've listened to and agreed to what both bands have produced, you'll please spend your money and own these albums proper.

El Mal Del Bien, the mind-bending sophomore album of the
Venezuela's Cultura
Tres, originally issued by the band in 2011, is being re-released
today on CD
by the UK based label Devouter Records. Devouter has recently
released on vinyl
debut albums by Make and Galvano and has some more intriguing
offerings in the
pipeline.

El Mal Del Bien is a highly versatile trip filled with
oppressive passages
and hypnotic rhythms, engaging bass lines, drawn out sludgy riffs
occasionally
entwined with classic solos and trash/death assaults; all this
enriched by the
double guitar interplay and discordancy - the Cultura Tres
imprint, and
multi-faced vocal styles. The album has received glowing reviews
from all over
the world, describing it as “a musical revelation for those tired
of the usual”
(Captain Beyond Zen), “way
heavier than ever before”
(Doommantia),“haunting and mesmerizing" (Metal Underground),"pretty
much flawless" (Terrorizer) and
“a solid
gold sludge doom masterpiece that deserves to be heard” (Sonic
Abuse), to
mention but a few.

The CD edition of El Mal Del Bien contains two tracks who could
be found only
digitally by now and don’t appear on the vinyl version of the
album. The
release comes as a 4-panel Digipack CD with the original El Mal
Del Bien
cover art and full lyrics. Both CD and Vinyl can be ordered
directly from
Devouter Records
http://devouterrecords.bigcartel.com/
and are distributed via Shellshock commercial partners, and will
soon be
available from Record Heaven, Sweden. The album can be streamed in
full here: http://soundcloud.com/devouterrecords/sets/cultura-tres-el-mal-del-bien/

Two Titans sees the duo deliver sludgy powerful riffs and intense drumming combined with slowed down dark passages. They enable you to go through a full spectrum of emotions then back again. Describing the album, Mattius (singer/guitarist) comments that: ‘All these songs are personal, all the way throughout the record. They are about personal matters and demons. It's about finding the darkest corners, the dark lord within and to show up for battle. Portrayed as two titans in constant battle: Good/Evil, Darkness/Light and so on. And sometimes wanting to embrace either side. It's about knowing when your mind is pulling tricks and being able to stop it. It's also celebrating our musical force as a duo.’

Galvano hail from Gothenburg, Sweden and comprises of duo Fredrik and Mattias. Formed in 2005, the band had one direction and one aim, to create something heavy. But it wasn’t until 2007 that the band let the outside world hear what they were creating when they released their first demo and started to play shows. The following years saw more touring across Europe playing alongside bands such as Black Breath and Alaskan.